There was a post a while back with a picture of a Brookie with a spine deformity. I caught this guy today...first one I've ever personally encountered like this. I've caught a few that had a little bit of an odd curve to their spine, but this guy looks like the lower Conodoguinet. The second pic is a more mild example of this.

Like grouse mentioned in the other post, these fish seemed otherwise healthy. The first pic came from a pretty good, healthy Poconos stream, and the second was from a recovering AMD stream.

In over 50 years of fishing I've never seen this, Pretty sure it's not whirling disease, though it's been present in PA streams since the mid-50's. It would kill the fish before it reached maturity. what stream, so we can look for more instances?

Posted on: 2013/5/15 8:31

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The object of a resource is to use and reuse a resource, not to use it up, have we learned nothing in over 125 years of stocking?